><<After Hejira, should you choose to go >that way, I suggest Night Ride Home.>>
>I hadn't heard NRH in awhile, and spun it from start to finish yesterday. >Really an excellent record. Come In From The Cold should have been edited, >I'm always ready for it to be over before it is. I don't care for Nothing >Can >Be Done much, but that's just me I suppose. Two Grey Rooms is of course one >of her masterpieces because like her best work, we can easily insert >ourselves into the story. >Cherokee Louise almost always moves me to tears with its story of childhood >betrayal, and the fact that the friend knows where to find her (under the >bridge) but now she's there because she's hiding in fear & shame as opposed >to the fun mischievious adventure of youth. So bittersweet... Thanks Bob....for reminding me why I am here. (I love politics and I guess I am what you would call a political junkie...not quite as bad as I use to be though. But I'm realizing discussing politics is better face to face...in front of a warm,crackling, fireplace....a little wine perhaps....) Night Ride Home is the first Joni I bought after being away from her for awhile,quite a long while....but really never that far away from my heart. It was about this time.. that I fell in love for the first time in my life.....and well...NRH does evoke so much from me. Title track: The simplicity, there in lies it's beauty. I can be so blue......and put this track on,open the moonroof....and just escape....forget for a little while anyway. I love those crickets sounds at the end. (everything is alright in the world.....the crickets affirm this :-) ) Passion play: A truly brilliant song!! In my top five of all time Joni songs. Musically,lyrically.......her voice!! I had a get-together at my house last summer,just family. I made copies of the lyrics and then I played it. It was SO interesting and fun to get the various opinions and views from everybody. I remember one interpretation was quite different;my niece's, then fianci, thinks it was about a wedding or partly about a wedding. When he told me this...my reaction was...HUH? Splain yourself boy!! I guess at the time he and my niece were planning their wedding.....so the multitudes...misery.....brought his upcoming wedding to mind. Cherokee Louise:Bittersweet is right, Bob! Joni talked about her friend and I can't remember now what her childhood friends real name is. But she said she has lost contact with her for many years now. This kind of surprised me considering Joni's stardom. It would be very easy...I would think.. for *Louise* to get in contact with her. Yeah...the innocence of childhood....secret hiding places....grabbing whatever your mother had in the fridge. Children have such wonderful imaginations,it really doesn't take a lot of fancy toys or gizmos. The innocence is so fleeting though. The carefreeness and sweetness doesn't last very long....... She runs home to her foster dad He opens up a zipper And he yanks her to her knees Oh please be here----------PLEASE My friend Poor Cherokee Louise The Windfall: .....you think I should buy you a car? Why? Because Elvis did?!! Oh....come on!! I love her shitty little laugh at the beginning of this. This song just cracks me up....the way she sings it... with such a smirk. I love the way the music fits the lyrics so perfectly.....almost like a march.....a mantra at times. It's kinda like,you fuck, here's the list....THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.....YOU WANT TO KNOW... HERE IT IS... Slouching Towards Bethlehem: I love her lone guitar at the beginning...and the build up to a full crescendo. And of course, there is much,much food for thought. It is a very hopeful song to me....that one day.. all the madness will stop.....(is this woman a musical genius or what!!) Come In From the Cold: Nice sentiment. But the song goes on a little too long. I think it would have hit the mark,IF... she could have found a way to shorten it a bit. It leaves me,yeah...you guessed it...a little cold. Ray's Dad's Cadillac: This song has really grown on me. I think it's quite clever. It is fun.....but you really can't dance to it nor sing along very well to it either.(at least I can't) Didn't this song come about after seeing a junkyard while her plane was preparing for a landing? Two Grey Rooms: Oh what can I say!! What a gem!! What an absolute treat!! With this song you get everything...all of Joni....much of life. OMG.. she even plays the piano !! The only fault I would have is that is too short. Short... but ever so sweet. BUT....life is so very short. (Thirty years have passed already) IF...I were to ever meet HER....and could find it in me to get the words out.....and stand because my legs I know would be like rubber..I would thank her of course for all her music.....but I would make a special point of thanking her for TGR. I believe I read that this song came about after she read an article or a short story about two ex-lovers....two gay men. Well,I've taken up enough space. And yeah....I guess you could say I like NRH,TOO. :-) Bree _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
